Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Identify songs by Id, not by File path

[pclouds <pclouds gmail com>]

Then what if i move songs without rhythmbox running?

On 9/13/05, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:31 +0200, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > Le lundi 12 septembre 2005 Ã 20:24 +0900, pclouds a Ãcrit :
> > > What do you think about this idea? My disks are sometimes full and i
> > > have to move my songs around. I can't figure out anyway to move my
> > > songs without losing rhythmbox metadata.
> >
> > I think a possible technical solution to your problem could be to create
> > a daemon that would be launched on GNOME session startup, and that would
> > use inotify to track changes concerning the files you have in your
> > database. The same daemon could be used to watch a given folder, and
> > automatically add to the library any file that gets moved to this
> > folder.
> >
> > But of course, it would need:
> >  1) to be accepted as a possible solution
> >  2) to be written by someone
> 
> Even easier is for Rhythmbox to watch all the files in the library if
> inotify is available, as it's now much cheaper to do so.
> 
> It would potentially be possible to monitor the files, and notice
> whether the files were moved (inotify would be able to do that when
> moving files within a partition, gnome-vfs could fake the event when we
> use gnome_vfs_move for moving files across partitions).
> 
> ---
> Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
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> 
> 


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